iShares MSCI South Korea

For international investors, EWY is the standard way to own the South Korean stock market in a single ticker. Issued by BlackRock's iShares, it tracks a capped index of large and mid-sized Korean companies, which in practice means heavy exposure to the technology exporters that dominate the economy, above all Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, alongside carmakers, banks and industrial groups. Because those companies live and die by global demand for chips, phones and cars, the fund behaves like a bet on the world's appetite for technology and on the Korean won. It uses a version of the MSCI Korea index with diversification caps so that no single company, chiefly Samsung, overwhelms it. Launched in 2000, EWY is one of the most heavily traded single-country funds and a common tool for expressing a view on Korea specifically or on Asian technology broadly. It carries the currency risk and the geopolitical shadow, from North Korea to trade policy, that come with the country.

On MyRWA, EWY trades tokenized across 30 on-chain venues - see the listings below.